Do not to bite the hand that fed you”:-Oyo’s governor

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Do not to bite the hand that fed you”: Oyo’s governor has a word or two for a political friend

“Do not to bite the hand that fed you”: Oyo’s governor has a word or two for a political friend
Special Adviser to Oyo Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Political Matters, Fatai Ibikunle, has a word for the Senator representing the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the National Assembly, Femi Lanlehin – do not to bite the hand that fed you.

This was contained in a release issued on Monday in response to an interview granted by the senator in which he faulted Governor Ajimobi and his achievements in the state.

The statement reads in part, “What Lanlehin did in that interview is tantamount to biting the finger that fed him. I could recall vividly that after the gubernatorial primaries of the ACN when he failed to pick the ticket of the party, he immediately moved to the Accord Party of Rashidi Ladoja.

“Indeed, his supporters are still there till today. Senator Ajimobi not only personally went to him to wave the olive branch at him, but also has since extended brotherly affection to the Senator. Indeed, at a meeting in Ibadan, he openly begged Lanlehin to let them work together for the uplift of the party. It is a pity that Lanlehin is bent on the journey to self-destruct,”

Ibikunle sure has an issue with Lanlehin rubbishing the governor’s achievements on pages of newspapers, especially when he could discuss them with the party, or even the governor himself. For him, if the senator wanted to join the Accord Party, he could do that without setting the state of fire.

The Ajimobi aide, also said that late governor Lamidi Adesina had expressed concern about the senator’s “personalisation” of politics, as against Ajimobi’s demonstration of respect for the party and its leadership.

“Immediately he became Senator, all Lanlehin’s aides were personally selected by him without the input of the ACN leadership. Alhaji Lam was not pleased with this tendency towards personalisation and compared this with that of Governor Ajimobi who subjected the choice of his aides to the party leadership’s rigour and approval,” Ibikunle said.

Ibikunle also said that Lam had worried about Lanlehin’s political loyalty, having been a trusted aide of former Governor Bola Tinubu and abandoning the ACN leader for the PDP before coming back to the ACN.

“But he promised Alhaji Lam that he would not engage in party prostitution again. He was always at the late leader’s house every morning begging to be brought back from his romance with conservatives.